Re: Tracing invalid rowid ora-01410

Yes, it really is so.

If you re-use the space where the index used to be, the run-time engine won't see the old index block - it will see a block that belongs to a completely different object. (Remember that Oracle navigates through indexes using block ids. Rowids are only used to get from index leaf blocks to table blocks.) The object_id mismatch will result in Oracle error ORA-01410 - unfortunately it's an error number that has been hijacked and mis-used, so the text is not appropriate for this specific problem.

I think the last time I checked this was Oracle 9.2.0.4, so I guess I'll have to check if things have changed recently.

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• Original Message ----- From: "Laimutis Nedzinskas" <Laimutis.Nedzinskas_at_landsbanki.is> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:11 PM Subject: RE: Tracing invalid rowid ora-01410

Is it really so?
Consistency is enforced bellow indexes or tables. It is enforced at block level.
The previous version of the index should still see the previous version of the table blocks, shouldn't it?

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Possible cause:

ORA-01410 can be the result of one session working through a long running query that depends on an index that gets rebuilt by another session

The index "moves", but the first session is still using the previous version of the index (read consistency across DDL). If the space freed by the rebuild is then re-used, the first session is likely to crash with a 1410.     

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